Hi all, first post be gentle
I'm Ivan, Moderator and comittee member of the UKDA, and this year a judge at the UKDA Discus show this last weekend.
My thanks to Dan, for bursting with enthusiasm and his eagerness to talk to anyone who looked remotely interested.
Will mail you soon Dan.
I've always had a soft spot for a planted tank and I was one of those people who said he could grow juvenile discus in a planted tank. That soon backfired, and I realised I was wrong so the plants went. I have come up with various ways to combine discus and plants, and while I'm not entirely happy with my tank at the moment, I'm happy with the idea.
The tank is a juwel 400 with their excuse for a filter well and truly thrown out of a moving car to be replaced with a superfish 300. (I don't think it is called that but thats the company who made it) It houses a few plants, that are kind of doing ok, and could do better, and houses 8 Discus, some that could also do better, and two that are very pretty indeed.
So, about me, I have two children, Declan and Maya and I'm married to Mandy an art teacher.
I hope to learn a lot from you guys.
Ivan.